New Torrentz Clone Appears with The Name of Pirate Bay And Extratorrent

It’s been quite a few days since we got the news of Torrentz shutting down, but soon enough alternative mirror sites like Pirate Bay and Extratorrents came into the spotlight. The government wholeheartedly tried to stop piracy, but somewhere in the way they failed, and soon the underworld caught up and published mirror sites.

What is a Torrent website?

Torrentz.eu is a meta search engine run by a Finland based individual going by the name of Flippy. Torrentz.eu is a website that provides its users with the ability to search million of torrents housed in its servers. The website sources the links, technically called torrents, from various sources, that include the likes of KickAss torrentz and Pirate Bay. The website gives you the details of the number of downloads in the form of seeds as well as the number of downloads in the form of leaches. This information helps you to understand how fast the particular file will be downloaded. Torrentz.eu was the most popular torrents website on 2012 and after a slight downfall, again gained popularity in 2015.

History of Torrentz

Though it is not clearly known, when the website was started, Torrentz became 13 on 5th August, 2016. The creator of this website, operates out of Finland and goes by the name of Flippy. In November 2008, scammers using fake papers, tried to sabotage the torrentz.com domain. When the creator got to know of the attempt, he instantly took action and launched his backup domain torrentz.eu.

Uses of Torrentz

The usage of torrentz depends upon the user. Some of you may use it for downloading movies and some of you may use it for downloading songs, the usage doesn’t matter, be assured that torrentz has everything you need. The user interface of the website is very simple, it has a search bar and an user menu. You just need to type out the name of the torrent you want, and voila you have it. You are not required to register before putting in your search. The search is autocomplete-enable, meaning it will give you items from the trending search at the moment. To do the search, you just need to type out a string of characters and press the search button in the website or hit the enter key in your keyboard. Once the search is requested, a list of all available torrents matching your query will be displayed in the website. These results can be filtered by day, month, year, number of downloads and many more. The quality of the torrent can be also marketed as good, bad or verified. When you click on a particular torrent, you will be redirected to a website containing a list of websites hosting that torrent currently.

About Piracy

As we all are well aware about what piracy is, but for the sake of this article, let’s just refresh our concepts. Piracy is the act of stealing material from a person or a company, without their conservation. Piracy can be done to anything, starting from books to music, and from designs to movies. Any material that is taken without the permission of the user is termed as, a pirated material.

Torrentz contribution to Piracy

Torrentz is one of the primary contributors to piracy. The driving reason behind this being, torrentz hosts almost 90% pirated material. Starting from pirated movies to pirated songs, torrentz has everything and the creators of the original material don’t like this. torrentz hosts all this pirated material in special servers that are off the grid. By off the grid, I mean to say that amateur engineers or hackers and in some cases even the most experienced ones can’t find its exact location. The location of this servers is so much protected that till date no enforcement agency in this world has been successful in locating their location.

How severe is the case?

Piracy is a very serious concern all over the world. Most of the governments around the world are trying to curb, but are somewhere lost in their efforts, as a result of which new sites are continuously coming up which are similar or more advanced than torrrentz. Piracy kills creativity and makes people loose their money. For example, if a movie studio invested Rs. 30 crores in making a movie and they expect to earn at least a crore from it. Now, if the movie is pirated by someone and released on one of these sites, you will download the movie from one of these sites and watch it in your home. As a result of which the company will loose the revenue that it was supposed to earn from the movie theaters, and as a result of which the production company goes into a loss. The same is with any other production like songs, books or anything similar. A lot of time and hard work is invested into making a final product, and when someone steals it from you without your notice, you will definitely go furious and try to break them apart. The same is the case with the governments around the world.

How they are being curbed?

The government around the world are taking steps to curb piracy. The first step towards stopping piracy is stopping Torrent sites. For this, the governments around the world are hiring special teams comprised of cyber security experts to track down those who are behind these. Although many efforts are being made, the government is always a step behind the creators. As of date, a number of websites hosting these pirated materials are being shutdown, but as it well known, because of the gaps in the efforts being made, a number of mirror sites like Pirate Bay and Extratorrent sites are coming up.

Final Word

Although the government around the world is taking efforts in curbing piracy, we as responsible netizens should stop relying on these kind of websites, and once we stop using them, there existence will be void in no time. Piracy has destroyed the domestic market around the world,

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